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HANSARDAgriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2024My Lords, we do not oppose this SI, as we did not oppose the agricultural transition plan, but we think that the implementation of ELMS and the agricultural transition away from…20 May 2024HANSARDManagement of Hedgerows (England) Regulations 2024My Lords, we welcome this statutory instrument. We have heard that a regulatory gap arose when cross-compliance was withdrawn at the beginning of this year. Our concern is that…20 May 2024HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Livestock Exports) BillMy Lords, as it is Third Reading and this is supposed to be formal, I shall be very brief and just say how delighted I am to see how swiftly the Bill has made its passage through…14 May 2024HANSARDFly-tippingMy Lords, the Minister has outlined some of the initiatives that the Government are bringing in to help combat this, which is clearly welcome, but recent figures show the number…14 May 2024HANSARDPet Abduction BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Black of Brentwood, for sponsoring the Bill and introducing it so eloquently. I also thank Anna Firth MP for bringing it forward in the…10 May 2024HANSARDArtificial Light and Noise: Effects on Human Health (Science and Technology Committee Report)My Lords, I start by thanking the committee for its work on the report. I thank the chair, the noble Baroness, Lady Brown of Cambridge, for introducing it, as well as all members…09 May 2024HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Livestock Exports) BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville, for introducing her Amendment 2. It seems to be a perfectly reasonable suggestion to review the…08 May 2024HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Livestock Exports) BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord de Clifford, for tabling and introducing this amendment; I was very pleased to help him with it and to support it. Although, as other noble…08 May 2024HANSARDCarbon Budget Delivery Plan: High Court RulingThanks to ClientEarth and its partners bringing a judicial review, the courts have now told the UK Government not once but twice that their climate strategy is not fit for…08 May 2024HANSARDCarbon Budget Delivery Plan: High Court RulingTo ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they intend to take in response to the ruling of the High Court on 3 May that their carbon budget delivery plan was not sufficient to…08 May 2024HANSARDSea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024My Lords, I thank the Minister for his thorough introduction to this SI. He talked about bluefin tuna or, as they are known in the SI, BFT, which means I can think of them only as…07 May 2024HANSARDEU Imports and Exports: Food and Agricultural ProductsMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering, for introducing this debate, and I thank everyone who has taken part. I declare my interest as set out in the…02 May 2024HANSARDWater Companies: Licence ConditionsMy Lords, I want to come back to the Minister’s response on dividends, investments and payments. Earlier this month, the Financial Times revealed that the 16 water companies paid…01 May 2024HANSARDChemicals StrategyMy Lords, it is now over six years since the chemicals strategy was first promised, to set out the UK’s approach post Brexit to ensure that chemicals are safely used and managed,…30 Apr 2024HANSARDTaskforce on Nature-related Financial DisclosuresDoes the noble Lord know how many UK entities or investors have already signed up to the framework and are making progress towards the appropriate disclosures?30 Apr 2024HANSARDSewage Pollution: Lakes and RiversMy Lords, for the last couple of years the Government have talked a lot about all the action they have been taking, but the situation seems to be getting worse. How is all the…30 Apr 2024HANSARDChemicals StrategyTo ask His Majesty’s Government when they intend to publish the chemicals strategy to which they committed in their 25-year environment plan of January 2018.30 Apr 2024HANSARDFur: Import and SaleMy Lords, surely the Minister would agree that, in light of the new legislation that is coming in on the banning of the import of shark-fins and the progress of the…22 Apr 2024HANSARDEnglish Horticultural Sector (Horticultural Sector Committee Report)My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Redesdale, for his introduction and all committee members, who produced such a thorough and impressive report. We have heard from a number…19 Apr 2024HANSARDVeterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024My Lords, I start by welcoming this statutory instrument. It makes more than 200 changes to the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013; there is a very long list of changes under…18 Apr 2024